Chapter 187: WARNED
"Mam, are you in there?" Erika heard the voice of the maid.
Erika released a sigh of relief when she heard the voice of the maid. "What is it?!" she yelled out of frustration. Earlier when she heard the footsteps, she thought it had been Adrian, looking for his phone.
The maid nearly jumped when she heard the woman scream. With her hand on her chest, she calmed her heart before answering,
"Mam, the boss told me that your belly hurts so he asked me to bring some bananas for you."
Bananas? Erika thought to herself with furrowed eyebrows before she realized. Adrian must have probably thought she was in that time of the month which was why he’d asked the maid to bring her some bananas.
His actions may be sweet but they disgusted her. "Take it away," Erika ordered. Her voice wasn’t sounding weak or soft as it had been earlier when she was talking to the officer on the phone. "I don’t need it," she added.
The maid nodded her head, totally forgetting that Erika wasn’t there to see it. "Yes mam, I will go now but if you do need anything to ease the pain, do let me know," said the maid before she walked to the door and left from there.
After sighing in relief, Erika fetched the phone back and wondered if she should make another call to the police. "This should be enough, Adrian will start looking for his phone anytime soon," she mumbled under her breath.
Feeling relieved that she had contacted the police and in no time, she would be found. A devious smirk crept on Erika’s face and she left the bathroom. Now how should I give this phone back to him?
Erika darted her eyes around the room before an idea popped into her head. Since Felicia and Mary wanted to give her trouble, how about she makes things fair by giving them trouble as well?
Walking towards the camera, Erika waved at it before speaking, "I want to go to the garden."
In less than 5 minutes, the same maid from earlier came and opened the door for her and she walked outside.
With her heart pounding in her chest, she continued to walk until she entered Mary’s and Felicia’s quarters.
As soon as the two saw her, a scorn immediately formed on their faces.
"What are you doing here?" Felicia questioned, ready to rain insults at her.
"Relax will you, why are you acting so paranoid? I am just here to talk with you, is that a problem?" Erika casually asked, taking the other two aback.
"Just answer the question," Felicia urged. She dropped her baby and stood up to face Erika head on which had the lips of the latter pulled up slightly.
"Let’s take a walk together, shall we?" Erika suggested. The two women became confused.
Since there were no securities from around the house, Erika could easily slip the phone into Felicia’s pocket and the latter wouldn’t know but that mission would only be successful if the both of them were alone.
"And why should I take a walk with you?" Felicia questioned Erika. "We are not friends or close relatives."
"If you don’t take a walk with me then I might just have to report you to Adrian. You know that he will do exactly whatever I say," Erika threatened with a smile. This was one of the moments that Adrian could turn useful. "It’s up to you. Besides, all I want is just a walk with you, nothing else," Erika shrugged.
Both Mary and Felicia glanced at each other before Mary nodded at Felicia for her to follow Erika.
"Let’s go," said Felicia, and without waiting for Erika, she walked past her and left the room.
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"So tell me," Felicia began. "What is it that you wanted to talk about? I know for sure that you didn’t bring me here for just a walk," she asked.
Erika pretended to release a sigh before she walked close to Felicia and the latter moved backwards.
"What is it?" Felicia asked her with a frown.
Erika studied Felicia’s face she had always been covered with a scarf ever since she arrived in the mansion before she asked,
"You know, I am still quite curious about what happened to your face. You keep blaming me for it but can you explain exactly how I’m at fault?"
Felicia was stunned. She held a surprised look before it turned into an annoyed one.
"You’ve always been the cause of all these and you know why?" she asked.
"That’s what I want to know," Erika repeated.
"It’s because you revealed my videos to the press, and because of that, I was attacked by the wives of those men," she replied.
"I was doing you a favor, you know. If Adrian had seen those obscene videos from a friend or another source, did you think that you would be alive to speak and even be here?" Erika asked her. "If I wanted, I could have ask Adrian to kick you out of here but I’m only letting you stay because of your son, the poor child will miss his mother," Erika added scornfully before she dramatically gasped by placing her hand on her mouth. "Did you know that Adrian asked me to marry him? It seems that your husband still loves me."
Felicia couldn’t believe what she was hearing. "You are lying."
"Why do you think I will be lying?" Erika asked as she moved closer to Felicia before staying behind her and continued, "You should have expected this. Adrian kidnapped me because he still loves me and now he wants us to become husband and wife again." She glanced down at Felicia’s pocket which was zipped close and frowned. ’Why is it zipped?’ she asked herself.
Felicia clenched her hands into a ball of fists as she gritted her teeth in anger. Adrian had never mentioned anything about getting married to Erika and now, he was planning to? she thought to herself.
Erika looked around the walls to be sure there weren’t any cameras before she reached for Felicia’s zipped pocket.
"I’m sure you don’t want that to happen, now do you?" Erika added when she noticed that Felicia was lost in her train of thought. Quickly, she unzipped the pocket, slipped the phone in it, and quickly zipped it back. In a short while, she was already done.
"He might also kick you out after the both of us have gotten married," she said.
Out of rage, Felicia turned and attempted slapping Erika but the latter was quick to pause her hands midair.
"You seem to have grown some wings now, Felicia. You didn’t even wait for me to tell you everything and you already want to slap me?" Erika changed her voice again to sound pitiful.
Felicia couldn’t believe that Erika had this cunny side of her.
"Let go of my hand," Felicia tried to yank her wrist off Erika’s hand.
Erika ignored Felicia’s complaint and continued, "Let me tell you the part that shows how seriously Adrian wants us to get married." Twisting Felicia’s hand, she gripped the wrist harder and the latter yelped in pain. Moving closer to Felicia’s ears, she added, "He also wants me to be your son’s new mother."
Just as Erika had expected, Felicia’s rage surged and she flared up. "I will never let that happen! Even after I’m dead, you’ll never get to mother my son, do you hear me?" She demanded.
"Why are you so noisy?" Erika hissed in annoyance as she let go of Felicia’s hand. "You should be glad that I’m not willing to mother your child or anything like that but you’d better not provoke me," she warned.
"What do you mean by that?" Felicia questioned, ready to attack her but the latter didn’t seem to be interested to talk to her anymore. Besides, the mission behind her reason for wanting to talk to Felicia had been completed.
Erika simply arranged her clothes and intended to leave from there but Felicia pulled her back.
"Where do you think you are going?" She demanded. "I’m still talking to you."
"But I’m done talking to you," Erika retorted. "I only wanted to inform you of Adrian’s plans for the both of us and it was all his ideas. If you object to it, simply go and meet him. I don’t have the time to waste with you anymore," and with that, Erika walked away from there without giving Felicia the chance to speak anymore.
Speechless, Felicia could only watch Erika leave as she glared at her back, hoping she could just stab Erika with it.
With gritted teeth, Felicia stood there and pondered about what Erika had just told her.
If Adrian planned to marry Erika and make her the mother of their son, that only means that sooner or later, she will be sent back to jail and her son will be taken away from her.
